Exercise 2
Exercise 2
Translate into Spanish:
- I flatter myself that you will be pleased with (le gustarán) my purchases seeing (visto) the firmness of prices at present.
Me halaga pensar que a usted le gustarán mis compras viendo la firmeza de los precios en la actualidad. - We consider ourselves lucky (dichosos de) not to have listened to their advice (consejo).
Nos consideramos dichosos de no haber oído su consejo. - He is always speaking of himself and of his business.
El está siempre hablando de sí y de su negocio. - He found himself a loser (á perder).
El se considera a si mismo un perdedor. - They declared themselves bankrupts (they filed their petition in bankruptcy).
Ellos se declararon en bancarrota. - They wrote to each other often.
Ellos se escribían á menudo. - He respects himself.
El se respeta a sí mismo. - He himself respects old customs.
El mismo respeta costumbres antiguas. - We acknowledge we are wrong.
Admitimos que estamos equivocados. - We acknowledge receipt of your favour (acusamos recibo de).
Acusamos recibo de su favor. - We shall gratefully acknowledge (agradeceremos infinito) any help you may render (preste) to our friend.
Agradeceremos infinitamente cualquier ayuda que usted preste a nuestro amigo. - We hope you will be very accurate in your figures.
Nosotros esperamos que usted sea muy preciso en sus cifras. - The output (producto) for the first two months of the current year was 18,668 lbs. dry rubber.
- The bill market (los cambios) was very firm to-day but there was little doing (poco se hizo).
- Dealers were reluctant (se mostraron contrarios) to do business in the securities.
- Rubber shares were lifeless (muy desanimadas), but prices were maintained (se mantuvieron).